Closed Bug 387370 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Cryptic error message provided when no certificate is available for client SSL authentication

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 107491

People

(Reporter: pxc, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.2.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

When a Web site requires client SSL authentication for access, and there is no client certificate in the firefox key store or only an expired certificate, a popup alert dialog is displayed with the error message "<web site url> has received an incorrect or unexpected message. Error Code: -12227".
This error message should be changed to make it more user friendly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attempt to access Web server with client SSL required
2.Popup error message dialog is displayed.  No Web site content is loaded.
Actual Results:  
See Details.

Expected Results:  
The popup error message should be more useful, e.g. "Unable to establish SSL connection.  A client certificate is required."

See Details.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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